The Aloof Immortal Venerable, Yet Carrying a Baby [Matriarchy]

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A gentle but wicked female Celestial Venerable x a cold, frail man who becomes a mother

Qie Yin was reborn, returning three thousand years after she had perished in the war between the immortals and demons.

She had gone from a powerful cultivator to someone who had lost all her cultivation arts. So she joined the sect of her close friend and lay low while waiting for revenge.

But the supposedly cold-hearted Shu Chenxu had spent the three thousand years since her death in grief and seclusion, and now his time was nearly up.

Everyone: The Immortal Venerable is deeply in love with the Immortal Venerable Guihua.

Qie Yin, the person at the center of the gossip: ?

These juniors are lax in their cultivation, but quick to spread rumors.

She had a wicked streak by nature. Qie Yin often teased Shu Chenxu until the tips of his ears turned red and he could barely maintain his dignified masterly composure. All he could do was scold her: "Insolent disciple."

He had his own selfish reasons.

She resembled Guihua so much that when Shu Chenxu saw her, he could almost believe Guihua was still by his side.

Shu Chenxu did not know when he had become unable to live without Qie Yin. By the time he realized it, they had already fallen into a passionate, all-consuming affair.

The once-cold Immortal Venerable, barely conscious and with tears glimmering in his eyes, pressed his forehead to the hollow of her neck and clung to her as they made love, but the name he called was, "Guihua..."

It was no rumor. He had loved Guihua from beginning to end.

But when Shu Chen woke, he found himself alone. Qie Yin had abandoned him.

At that moment, news came from the sect that Immortal Venerable Guihua had returned to the immortal realm.

A disciple said that Immortal Venerable Yuanyun had been pinned against the wall by Immortal Venerable Guihua, looking utterly disheveled.

Shu Chenxu protected his swollen belly, panic impossible to hide in his eyes. Then the woman who had always been so carefree laughed and asked, "Dear husband, you're carrying my child. Where do you think you're running off to?"

Highlights:

1. The heroine is reborn and looks different from before

2. The lovesick, frail hero acts aloof at first, then becomes humble and begs for love. Once he falls for her, he becomes a devoted fatherly figure

3. The hero has belonged to the heroine, body and heart, from beginning to end

4. The heroine grows over time and is irresistible to everyone. She likes teasing people and habitually flirts around, but never means anything by it

5. Not a multiple-love-interest story, one-on-one romance, both leads are pure in body and heart

6. A cold, loyal dog of a man; mostly sweet with a little bittersweetness, and the hero runs away while pregnant

★ Please add "Adoptive Mother (Matriarchal World)" to your collection:

The first time Shen Yuanrou met Pei Ji, he was still an infant in swaddling clothes. No matter how much she disliked children, her friend's enthusiasm was hard to resist, and she became the baby boy's adoptive mother.

After more than a decade navigating the officialdom, she heard news of the Pei family again thirteen years later. The Pei family was no longer all-powerful, and Xuzhou had changed beyond recognition.

That year, though, a young man arrived at her residence claiming to be her godson and asking to see her.

The young man had a handsome, stubborn face. His eyes, so like her friend's, made her feel as though she had returned to the past: "...Adoptive Mother."

"Make yourself at home." Shen Yuanrou raised her eyes and studied the boy, as slender as a bamboo stalk, before adding, "I'll find you a good marriage."

Pei Ji was afraid of her. She put down rebels and killed corrupt officials, and power had left its mark on her. She was not someone who tolerated defiance.

But he had nowhere else to turn, and his adoptive mother had said she would find him a good match.

Pei Ji did not want to be dependent on someone else. At first, he looked forward to the marriage she would arrange for him. But as time passed, that thought gradually changed: he wanted to stay by his adoptive mother's side.

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